Quoting Martin Marcher <martin@marcher.name>:
Hi, 2007/10/9, michael@estone.ca <michael@estone.ca>:Adding some more info: Interesting results. I wonder if anyone else has a partitioned raid 5 array and have normal speed results?I do. Well sort of. I don't partition RAIDs but I put LVM on top of it. I couldn't tell any difference between the logical volumes in term of r/w speed. That has always worked for me. Out of interested: Why are you partitioning your RAID and not using LVM?
Good question.I guess mostly because I'm not too familiar with LVM. Although it looks interesting, but I deciced to not get into it that much since it adds another amdinistration level, and I wasn't sure if there were rescue utils out there. I'm sure there are now. Perhaps I will try it. This would solve my problem, but am still curious as to why I get that slowness in the first place.
Cheers, Mike